Bibi Netanyahu has performed a major "climb-down" and withdrawn all Israeli video surveillance equipment and crowd control railings (English article) from the al Aqsa enclave in Jerusalem. Video cameras which had been installed on overhead rods after two Israeli police were killed two weeks ago, have been removed (see video of the removal). Israeli media … [Read more...]
Al Aqsa Crisis: Despite Backroom Deals, Palestinians Continue to Resist
Just when Israelis and Jordanians were taking a deep breath at the bullet they both dodged, thinking they'd resolved the al Aqsa crisis, the common Palestinian folk rose up and said: "Not so fast." The fixers in Amman and Jerusalem thought they'd brokered a deal that gave both sides something. But they left out a key factor necessary to make the deal … [Read more...]
Official Jordanian Account of Killings by Shin Bet Agent Dramatically Contradicts Israel’s
Jordan's police released an account of the killings of two Jordanians by an Israeli Shin Bet agent, who was deputy chief of security for the Israeli embassy in Amman. The official account contradicts in substantial ways the Israeli version, which has been the only account reported in the media for the past 36 hours. Given the outrageous abuse of truth and … [Read more...]
Jordan-Israel Deal Permits Evacuation of Israeli Embassy Staff and Killer of Two Jordanians, Defusing al Aqsa Standoff
After high-level phone contacts between Bibi Netanyahu and King Abdullah and Shin Bet chief, Nadav Argaman's secret visit to Amman, Israel and Jordan appear to have worked out a compromise to defuse the Amman embassy standoff and the al Aqsa protests as well. According to an outline of the deal reported in Israeli media, the Jordanians have permitted the … [Read more...]